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List of Failover Cluster Events in Windows 2016/2019
Published Apr 12 2019 12:01 PM 36.5K Views
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Let me tell you of a story of myself and one of my asks while I was still in support. 

 

We always thought the it would be nice to have a listing of all Failover Clustering events for references.  Our customers ask for it, we ask for it.   So logically, we approached the Product Group and asked for it.  The response back wasn't what we really wanted to hear which was, "It's in the code that you can pull out but will take you some time to piece it all together".  Again, not what we wanted to hear and had this ask on multiple occasions.

 

Then, little Johnny joined the big boys in the Product Group and became the PM owner of Failover Clustering infrastructure.  Now, everyone keeps asking me for it.  My response? 

 

"It's in the code that you can pull out but will take you some time to piece it all together"

 

Awful hypocritical of myself, but when I did take a look at it, yes, it would take a while to do (not talking about a day or so).  I could see why we had the response previously.

 

Here's a bit of trivia I bet you did not know.

 

Q: How many events are there for Failover Clustering?

A: Between the System Event and the Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering/Operational channel, there are a total of 388 events in Windows 2019

 

 While in Support, I did not realize how many people were asking for it.  I was getting hit up from all over the place both internally and externally.  I was starting to look a lot like:

 

Cluster-Events-1.png

 

Finally, I decided that I was going to do it.  So rolled up my sleeves and a couple weeks later, it was finally complete.  FINALLY!!!!  The spreadsheet with the events is attached to this blog.  My hope is that you can make good use of it and is what you have been asking for.

 

To explain it a bit, this list is for Windows 2016 and 2019 Failover Clustering.  Many of these same events are in previous versions.  We have not removed any events, only added with each version.  I have separated it into two tabs, one for Windows 2016 and the other for the Windows 2019 new events. 

 

  1. There are a few duplicate event IDs.  That is by design.  The description of the event is going to depend on the call made, so they may differ slightly.  
  2. I sorted it all by the severity levels.  Feel free to sort however you wish.
  3. You may notice '%1', '%2', etc values in the description.  When there is an event, we collect the values such as resource, group, etc as a variable and substitute the variable in the actual description.
  4. You may notice '%n' in some of the descriptions.  I left those in the spreadsheet and are carriage returns.  I didn't want to replace them as it would distort things if you wanted to sort differently.

Is there a moral of the story for little Johnny?  Don't know.  But now that it is done, he feels much better.

Cluster-Events-2.png

 

Happy Clustering !!!

 

John Marlin

Senior Program Manager

High Availability and Storage

 

 

16 Comments
Copper Contributor

This is EXCELLENT John. Thanks for sharing. :)

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Thank you John!

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Awesome John! Thanks for your contributions!

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thank you

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This is just AWESOME. Thank you John.   

Brass Contributor

 

Thank you John for stepping up and getting this done for all of us.

Copper Contributor

Great stuff - thanks! :)

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Thank you for this.

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Thank you John!!!

Copper Contributor

Awesome! Thank you John :)

Copper Contributor

It would be super awesome if little Johnny could add a one more column for solution in each events :stareyes:

Copper Contributor

This sounds really useful to have and thanks for compiling it, but I can't see it attached to the blog, has it been removed?

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Hello @pdownesirl, I just confirmed that the link is still above, underneath John's 'signature' and I was able to open it.  Try this. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/failover-clustering/list-of-failover-cluster-events-in-window... 

Copper Contributor

Thanks so much Eriq, apologies for missing that earlier.

This is really a great help.

Copper Contributor

Absolutely amazing, thanks John

Copper Contributor

Thank you very much for your kind sharing, Mr. John Marlin 🙏🏽🙇🏻‍:female_sign:

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